NewsBusters Podcast: It's Not 'Minnesota Nice' If You Run Over ICE

January 9th, 2026 9:40 AM

The network news can hardly notice the massive welfare fraud perpetrated by Somalis in Minnesota, and the media find nothing offensive about local Democrats telling ICE to 'get the f--k out of Minneapolis' and threatening to deploy the National Guard against ICE.

Column: Minnesota Democrats Are Testing How Woke Is Too Woke

January 9th, 2026 6:45 AM

What is going on in The People’s Republic of Minnesota? Minnesota Democrats aligned themselves with radical leftists violently assaulting ICE and with Somali-Americans who defrauded the federal government of billions of dollars.

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UPDATED: ABC Continues To Hide MN Fraud, NBC Plays Defense for Somalis

January 8th, 2026 11:15 AM

Last week NewsBusters published a study which found ABC's World News Tonight had spent just 25 seconds covering the widespread Minnesota fraud scandal involving allegedly sham businesses set up by Somalians. As of this morning, Wednesday, January 7, that number has climbed to a still-pitiful 35 seconds

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ABC Upset Trump Froze MN Daycare Funds Over ‘Unverified Allegations’

January 7th, 2026 4:10 PM

On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America fretted over the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $10 billion in federal child care funds to five blue states — including Tim Walz’s Minnesota — and inflict pain on “those who need the help the most” because “a conservative YouTuber” peddled “unverified allegations of fraud at day cares.” 

Tim Walz Personifies Democrats’ Decline

January 6th, 2026 4:05 PM

Tim Walz is going away, but the Democratic Party’s Tim Walz crisis isn’t. The Minnesota governor gave up his quest for a third term Monday: Staying out of jail will be challenging enough for him over the next few months, never mind prolonging his stay in office. Federal prosecutors estimate the Somali daycare scam and other frauds perpetrated under his watch cost taxpayers up to $9 billion.…

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MS NOW's Mara Gay: Somalis Being 'Scapegoated' Over Minnesota Fraud!

December 30th, 2025 11:24 AM

On Monday's Morning Joe, MS NOW analyst and member of the New York Times editorial board Mara Gay claims that Somalis are being "scapegoated" over welfare-program fraud in Minnesota.

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MS NOW Host Downplays $1B Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud as 'Isolated'

December 7th, 2025 5:51 AM

On Saturday's The Weekend, MS NOW co-host Jackie Alemany sought to dismiss the huge Feeding Our Future welfare fraud conducted by Somalis in Minnesota. She asked Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to "set the record straight" by describing "how isolated it actually was." Ellison congratulated the U.S. Attorney for conducting the prosecutions and claiming "we all wanna protect…

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Leading With Deception: Nets Spend 28% of Somali Coverage on Fraud

December 5th, 2025 4:46 PM

This week, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC have dedicated a stunning 22 minutes and 21 seconds to President Trump’s comments repeatedly ripping the Somali community in Minnesota as “garbage” and having “ripped off that state,” but only about 28 percent (or 27.7 percent) mentioned Trump’s remarks were in relation to a years-long welfare fraud scheme in Democrat-run Minnesota…

How Hard Was That? ABC Chooses to Stop Lying About Trump, Somalia

December 4th, 2025 1:34 PM

If at first you don’t succeed try and try....and try again? ABC must have thought that was the way in spending one news cycle each on their flagship newscasts Good Morning America and World News Tonight falsely spinning viewers there was no context to President Trump’s scathing comments about Somali Americans. But on the third try on Thursday’s World News Tonight,…

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FINALLY: NBC Breaks the Ice on Somali Welfare Scam Roiling Minnesota

December 2nd, 2025 11:15 PM

It took about a week, but it is our duty to report that the Minnesota Somali welfare scam has finally been reported on Elitist Media nightly news. Unsurprisingly, the network to break the seal was NBC. 

Rahm Emanuel Sounding Like a Republican

December 1st, 2025 11:00 AM

Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028. He shares his thoughts in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. It’s the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton announced in his 1996 State of the Union address that “The era of big government is over.” Emanuel has a stellar political resume that…

Mamdani’s Bad Ideas: Seizing Means of Production, Gov't Groceries

November 26th, 2025 12:22 PM

People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a “favorable view” of it. New York just elected a “proud socialist” mayor. My video explains why his ideas would make things worse. Of course they would! Socialism has never worked. Anywhere! Yet Seattle, too, just elected a socialist mayor. “Let’s give socialism a chance,” said a student writing in The…

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MSNBC's Katy Tur: Trump is ‘Callous’ for Firing Feds, Withholding SNAP

November 14th, 2025 7:18 PM

In anticipation of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history finally ending, MSNBC’s Katy Tur couldn’t let it end without degrading President Trump one last time, pointing to the mass-firings of federal employees and withholding of SNAP benefits as evidence of “callousness.”

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ABC Claims Trump WH Is Using Flight Cuts, Hungry Americans as Tools

November 7th, 2025 4:38 PM

On Friday’s Good Morning America, the ABC program implied without evidence flights are being cut to purposefully harm Americans in this government shutdown and touted the partisan claims of a federal judge appointed by President Obama (which they refused to mention) accusing the administration of not fully funding the federal food stamps program to starve Americans.